When Stanley Kubrick died on March 7, 1999, there was still a little over four months until Eyes Wide Shut’s…
Feature Friday: “Dark Star” (1974)
I caught up with Dark Star only a few years back, at one of the Music Box‘s science-fiction marathons. I…
The Overlook Hotel – the best resource for The Shining
The Overlook Hotel is simply the best site about The Shining on the internet. There are dozens of never before…
On Newfound Footage from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining
I did come upon this by myself, but others have seen the same thing I have. Still, I can’t help…
The Barthelme Problem
[This post is something of a response to John’s recent post, and some of the comments made there by Darby,…
Style as Imitation
1. My father, who once trained as a baker, taught me when I was a kid how to bake an…
There Will Be 2001
This is somewhat late to the party, but three years later I still haven’t seen this argument made anywhere else,…
Kubrick: The Great Bully
We all know the stories. 80 takes, 90 takes. Well, you rewrite something that many times, it’s bound to get…
Brevity, part 7: Slow Motion
Note: This post is partly a reply to a question someone asked me, back-channel, about slow motion, but also partly…
Brevity, Part 2: Long Takes
Some of us have been discussing long takes in movies, and John mentioned that he’d like seeing a list of…